Only edition. [4], 172, 72 ff., 296:188 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.

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R. Benjamin b. david Cases (1680–1749), rabbi and author. R. Cases was born in Adrianople where he lived until 1730, when he moved to Constantinople. In 1740 he settled in Safed and headed a yeshivah. His novellae to the Sefer Mitzvot Gadol of R. Moses b. Jacob of Coucy were published under the title Megillat Sefer (pt. 1, Constantinople, 1750). He also wrote commentaries to the Jerusalem Talmud, Midrash Tanhuma, and Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, as well as a book on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah called Helko shel Binyamin,.